This past Sunday, April 20, our daughter Abigail Marie was baptized. We were fortunate to have many friends and family in town to celebrate with us, both at the Mass and the party following. Abby was so good during the ceremony – she didn’t cry once, although each of the three times the water was [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Abigail’s first sacrament
Posted in family, friends, videos, tagged abigail, faith, family, friends, motherhood, videos on 04.23.2008 | 6 Comments »
these are not dark days; these are great days
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, family, motherhood, photos on 04.11.2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we took Abigail with us to an appointment, and in the waiting area an older woman approached, peered into our sleeping child’s face, and remarked, “Winston Churchill said that all babies look like him. He was right.”
I must have given her a what-the-frak sort of expression, because she added, by way of explanation, [...]
look at us, we’re beautiful
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, family, motherhood, photos on 04.8.2008 | 3 Comments »
You know how most parents have professional family portraits taken every year or every other year, and so all you have to do is glance around their living room or walk down their hallway and you can watch their precious children growing up right before your eyes?
Yeah. My parents never had family portraits taken [...]
baby, look at you now
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, family, motherhood, photos on 04.1.2008 | 2 Comments »
Abigail has been so smiley lately! She’s five and a half weeks old, and has been giving us little grins for weeks, but only in the past week or so have I been able to believe that the smiles are meant as smiles, and not as a reaction to gas. It’s so sweet when she [...]
